Jennifer Hawkins on the cover of the February issue of marie claire magazine, on sale from January 6.
Photo of supermodel Jennifer Hawkins, is saying it promotes awareness of positive body image. The 26-year-old wears only make-up on the cover of the February issue of Marie Claire, which supports the Butterfly Foundation. The organization provides help to Australians struggling with eating disorders and negative body image issues and their careers.
What do you think?
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Tori Spelling
recently spoke of her weight-loss and titles it her success after the birth of her second child, daughter Stella, now almost 10-months-old. The 35-year-old actress has always been slim; however, her friends are worried that her weight has hit an all-time scary low - 98 pounds! Is Tori sick?
She looks better with more weight.
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Nicole is the next America’s Top Model
She is too skinny and a body Blunder in my opinion!
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Doubts About Dieting?
It only takes losing five percent of body weight (think 10 pounds off someone weighing 200 pounds) to have a “clinically significant benefit.” Lowering and maintaining a healthy weight can reduce high blood pressure, cholesterol and risk of heart disease while improving self-image and esteem. Doubts about the benefits of dieting are winning an East Carolina University professor’s national recognition and acclaim.
Lesley Lutes developed the “small changes” program”
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Former SPICE GIRL MELANIE CHISHOLM
The singer has suffered well-publicized battles with eating disorders and sought treatment for depression back in 2002.
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Limit celebrity media consumption
“A five-year study by the AAP found that the more frequently a girl reads those fashion magazines, the more likely she is to resort to extreme weight control behaviors. What’s more: when a celebrity goes on a diet, 70 percent of between girls want to as well. Teach your child to be media literate and to resist the ways television, movies, and magazines portray underweight women as glamorous and muscle-bound men as all-powerful. While you’re at it, put down those celebrity and fashion magazines yourself.” It’s more important to talk with your children about what is healthy and be a model for healthy body image and healthy eating. You can be a positive example. Children learn what they see you do, not what we as parents preach.
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Tyra Looks Great!
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Keira Knightley’s
height as 5' 7" and her weight is 105 lbs. What do you think of Keira Knightley?
Too skinny? YES!
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New York TimesAustralian Study- Women Who Live with a Partner Gain More Weight
“It’s interesting and brings out some important points,” said Maureen A. Murtaugh, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Utah who has published widely on weight gain in women. Perhaps, she suggested, a more active social life may help explain why women with partners gain more weight.
“Think of going to a restaurant,” Dr. Murtaugh said. “They serve a 6-foot man the same amount as they serve me, even though I’m 5 feet 5 inches and 60 pounds lighter.”
The study included only women, but the researchers cited one earlier study that showed an increase in obesity among men who had children, adding further evidence that social and behavioral factors are part of the explanation.
Dr. Dobson said the finding of weight gain among all the women, with families or without, was troubling.
“This is a general health concern,” she said. “Getting married or moving in with a partner and having a baby are events that trigger even further weight gain.
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James Bond -who is famed for his toned physique - recently revealed he wants to get "old and fat" and only diets when he is preparing for a film role.
He said: "I genuinely don't diet. I eat a full breakfast, full lunch, full dinner and once or twice a week I might even drink Guinness and red wine and all that stuff. Otherwise you go insane. You get into a stupid place. I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous.”
I love him because he is real.
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Ten Fitness Trends for 2010
According to a survey released by The American Council on Exercise, Americans will focus on convenience, affordability, and new uses of technology while getting fit.
I suggest this site: www.reboundair.com
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Lily Allen- Brittney Beware
Lily Allen suffers from Body Dismorphic Disorder. Photo courtesy of WikiCommons
Recent interview with Q magazine, has Lily Allen admitting that she suffers from Body Dismorphic Disorder, "I was sitting in bed last night and I caught sight of myself in the mirror," and what she sees is, "someone who is more overweight than they actually are."
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Susie Orbach’s (Princess Diana’s Therapist) latest book is Bodies
‘In which she tells us what has happened to our bodies in the three decades since she wrote about fat being a feminist issue. “The problems I sought to describe have mushroomed,” she writes. The contemporary body is a battleground. In fact, people have never felt worse about their bodies than they do now. Makers of face creams are telling us we are too wrinkly; owners of gyms are telling us we’re too flabby; plastic surgeons are telling us our faces are all wrong. We are constantly being told that we look unattractive – and the terrible thing is that we believe it.
In the book, she talks about “the merchants of body hatred”. Her point is that, if people are anxious and needy, they make better consumers; if they are anxious about something as fundamental as their bodies, they are easy prey for marketers.’ By William Leith
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Jake Guevara The New York Times
I had to put this ad in for ECONOMIZING Three-packs of men's briefs are coming back due to the recession. But at the same time, Mr. Kleinmann said, more expensive body-shaping styles for men, a new category of underwear designed to enhance certain body parts and minimize others, are taking off. This looks like the body image ads are promoting perfect bodies for men.
What do you think?
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Avatar has been designated a Critic's Pick by the film reviewers of The Times.
Few films return us to the awe of childhood with our first cinematic experiences, to that magical moment when movies really were bigger than life (instead of iPhone small).
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The Fattest City: & the Celebrity Chef
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – is tired of being stuck with the label of America's unhealthiest city, Huntington residents are offering a questionable welcome to a celebrity TV chef who hopes to help them shape up.
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Sydney Morning Herald
2009 Review
We engaged in a love-hate relationship with food. Worshipping TV chefs, the more bad-mouthed the better. Band Aid Diets such as the Florida, Atkins, CSIRO or other diets were popular. Then how many developed eating disorders as we came one of the world's most obese nations?
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Women are growing
The fantasy shape is shrinking. As the feminist writer Naomi Wolf wrote in The Beauty Myth (1990), a decade ago the average model had been 8 per cent lighter than the average woman. But by 1990, models were 23 per cent lighter. From a recent survey by Wired magazine , between the 1960s and today, it was found that the body mass index of Playboy Playmates has, on average, declined from 19.2 to 17.6, while that of real women has risen from 22.2 to 26.8.
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What percentage of girls who start dieting at 13 get eating disorders?
What are the chances of a girl who has been Dieting since she was 13 and still is (she’s probably around 15 now), getting an eating disorder? 86% of girls who diet at that age end up with one. Dieting not a life style change is a body blunder.
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2 Tips for Families to set a Healthy Mental & Emotional Foundation to Help Avoid Eating Disorders!
Tip: “For families with young children, crafts and creative projects are ways for parents to spend time with their children. For older children, game nights and storytelling activities work well. Spending time outdoors works well with all age groups,” Jody Kuhl, director of Corpus Christi Family Outreach said.
Tip: Families eating together communicate better according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Teens who regularly eat with their families have a decreased risk for alcohol and drug abuse or developing eating disorders. Kuhl suggested asking children about the highs and lows of their day. The key is to start early and make it a fun habit.
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Eating disorders: the current status of molecular genetic research.
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2009 Dec 24;
“Anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are complex disorders characterized by disordered eating behavior where the patient's attitude towards weight and shape, as well as their perception of body shape, are disturbed.” Genetic studies on twins and families suggested an important genetic influence in eating disorders.
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“A history of anorexia is one of the biggest red flags for osteoporosis, says Columbia University endocrinologist Elizabeth Shane, who studies osteopenia—the early stage of osteoporosis—in younger women. That's because when a woman's body weight drops too low, it lowers hormone levels, and she typically starts skipping periods.” "Anything that lowers estrogen levels interferes with bone building," Shane says.
Let’s not forget natural progesterone and it’s positive effects for bone density, according to Dr. John R .Lee’s Hormone Hotline.
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Next Decade Prediction
Your Health will be Perceived and Realized as Your Wealth (Your Health being Your Greatest Wealth).
Strength will be measured differently with the basis of the New-Age being your Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit! With obesity levels at 34% of the U.S. population at the end of the first 2009 decade, and estimated to reach obesity rates of 44% in the new decade, the resulting illnesses will change life preferences.
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As the fashion industry sets up for the January debut of V Magazine’s plus-size issue everyone’s curious about the photos that have already been leaked of plus-size model Crystal Renn. As seen in the photo above this is Jone Crystal posing alongside Jacquelyn Jablonski, a ‘thin’ supermodel.
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Teri Hatcher’s Daily Workout
The Desperate Housewives actress told about her 2hr. and 11 minute workout training for the Malibu Triathlon.
“I wasn’t panicked about [turning 45] – it just seemed like a milestone. The older you get, the more you become aware of the things you can’t change and the things you can change.” Extreme exercise?
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The Critical Eye
The Daily Mail has criticized two celebrities today. Victoria Beckham now 35 is, it appears, too thin. The fact that she has always been thin seems to have completely missed The Mail’s attention.
While Paul Hogan, now 70, is charged with eating too much and found guilty of the unforgivable crime a celeb can commit, he is growing old with his wife of 20 years.
So we have to be thin, but not too thin as judged by the subjective standards of the press and we can only have just the right amount of fat on our bodies. Body Blunders in the press’s view.
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Richard Simmons
At 61, Mr. Simmons is as American as apple pie and the Big Mac — two things he would no doubt warn you away from eating. He has outlasted many of his peers, including Jane Fonda, whose career as a fitness guru started around the same time as his (the same company released their first videotapes in the early ’80s). While she has moved on from leg lifts to political activism and the occasional acting role, he is about to release two new videos, “Sweating to the Oldies 5” and “Toning to the Oldies” — his 58th and 59th. GO Richard!
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Fashion Show for All Sizes
Bothell High seniors Kelsey Brobeck, left, and Alexa Stampanoni will present the “Rock Your Body” fashion show for boys, girls and adults of all sizes Jan. 11. “I hope to raise awareness. (about body image) in the community. It’s not something to be ashamed with,” Brobeck said. ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter A star for this one.
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For Men
Did you know that being as little as 14lbs overweight significantly increases your risk of contracting a life-threatening illness or disease?
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Carolyn Coker Ross, M.D Says -
Just a reminder--the diet industry which is a multi-billion dollar industry, has one purpose and one purpose only – to make money. If making their purpose accidentally helps you lose weight, then that’s great. Usually that’s not the case however.
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Another Kind of Eating Disorder
Orthorexics believe that certain foods are impure, and obsessively avoid foods which may contain artificial colours, flavours, preservatives, pesticide residues, herbicides, genetically modified ingredients, unhealthy fats, foods containing too much salt or too much sugar, and other components.
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Clinical Psychologist Wendy Walsh
She spoke about successful
resolutions in the New Year and
gave some tips on how to stick to
a changing lifestyle. More at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/
2009/12/28/earlyshow/
main6029388.shtml
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At just 32 years young, Brittany Murphy died this morning reportedly from cardiac arrest. Extremely thin and quirky, Murphy was surrounded by rumors of drug use and eating disorders. The question, were drugs and/or an eating disorder the alleged cause for her heart's failure? I say both. A sad loss.
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Scarlet Johansson (CelebTV.com)
When the weather gets warm, or in this case near New Years and the diet promises, celebrity magazines start using more diet headlines to grab potential readers'
Scarlet says to this invasion and misinformation that she is "frustrated with the irresponsibility of the tabloid media" and that it's "reckless and dangerous" for publications to sell stories telling of crash diets or miracle workout that are completely fabricated. Scarlett has always been an advocate for healthy body image. HOORAY!
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Last Year’s Tragedy
This is a woman with resilience, grace, and determination to get better after the violent face and hands attack by a 200-pound chimp. She has no eyes now, yet says she pushes herself, even when she doesn’t feel like it- she wants to get stronger. One can use this formula to push through eating disorders too!
Under a veil
Before the attack
Bravely uncovered
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Photo by: SplashNewsOnline
Griffith is married to Zorro star Antonio Banderas and is slated to appear on Nip/Tuck next year. This is a popular show that adds to our fascination with the ‘perfect body’.
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This photo is raising concerns!
Lindsey Lohan is not new to the weight loss rumor mill.
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Orthorexia?
It's normal to change what you eat to improve your health, treat an illness or lose weight. Usually, people focus less on what they eat once they're established their new eating habits. However, those with orthorexia nervosa remained consumed with what foods they allow themselves to eat, and then feel guilty about themselves if they fail to stick to their diet.
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December 8th, 2009
During the season 9 finale of the Biggest Loser, Danny Cahill lost the highest percentage of starting body weight on the show. |
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